It's so hard to make a comedy pilot and have a cool idea.
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When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.
At the end of the day, it's really, really difficult to make a brand-new show, to write a pilot where you have to introduce characters and everyone has to kind of be dynamic and have something different for themselves.
To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.
Good comedy doesn't have to be a comedy idea.
With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.
In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.
Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.
Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.
Coming up with comedy is hard, man. Those bits aren't easy to think of!
It is cool to make a pilot because you get to do all the fun stuff, and then you get to leave when all the tough stuff starts.